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The Waste Crisis in Campania, Italy The Waste Crisis in Campania, Italy By Lucie Greyl, Sara Vegni, Maddalena Natalicchio, Salima Cure and Jessica Ferretti for A Sud ABSTRACT From 1994 to early 2008, the region of Campania in south-west Italy existed under a formal State of Emergency, declared due to the saturation of regional waste treatment facilities. There is growing evidence, including a World Health Organisation (WHO) study of the region, that the accumulation of waste, illegal and legal, urban and industrial, has contaminated soil, water, and the air with a range of toxic pollutants including dioxins. A high correlation between incidences of cancer, respiratory illnesses, and genetic malformations and the presence of industrial and toxic waste landfills was also found. The Government has been unable to resolve this crisis, adopting measures that have only increased public unrest, exacerbating the conflict. Local communities continue to organise and protest, risking arrest in order to be heard by a Government that has so far excluded them from decision- making processes. Meanwhile the management of waste has worsened: from the failure to separate dry from wet waste and the resultant inability to produce compost (necessary for the regeneration of contaminated land) to the continued production of the inaccurately named “ecoballs” that have continued to accumulate due to delays in the construction of incinerators. These delays have necessitated the creation of new stocking areas, the re-opening of old landfills and the creation of new ones. Although Illegal waste management is currently one of the most urgent environmental issues in Italy, public opinion and the media remain silent on the matter. KEYWORDS : Hazardous waste, Ecomafia, externalities as cost shifting success, post-normal science, “Zero waste”, incinerators, Lawrence summer principle, DPSIR (Driving forces, Pressures, States, Impacts, Responses), corruption, democracy crisis, EROI May 2010 1 Contents 1. Introduction ......................................................................................................................... 3 2. A Brief History of the Campania Waste Crisis ..................................................................... 4 2.1. The First Regional Waste Emergency Plan .................................................................. 4 2.2. The Second Regional Waste Management Plan: FIBE and Ecoballs ........................... 5 2.3. The FIBE – Impregilo Affair ........................................................................................... 7 2.4. The answer to the emergency: Decree 90 .................................................................... 8 3. Corruption and the Camorra ............................................................................................. 10 3.1. Market Mechanisms of the Illegal Waste Industry ....................................................... 11 3.1.1. The Re Mida case: a Micro analysis of illegal waste market ................................ 12 4. The Externalities of Campania's Waste Crisis .................................................................. 13 4.1. Environmental impacts ................................................................................................ 13 4.1.1. Campania’s ecological footprint ............................................................................ 14 4.2. Health impacts ............................................................................................................ 14 4.2.1. The Provinces of Caserta and Naples .................................................................. 15 4.3. Local Economic Impacts ............................................................................................. 16 4.4. Social impacts: civil society mobilisation ..................................................................... 16 4.4.1. Salient moments of mobilization ........................................................................... 17 5. Discussion and analysis .................................................................................................... 19 5.1. The conflict as a Post Normal Science problem ......................................................... 19 5.2. Emergency management and abuse of power ........................................................... 19 5.2.1. Legal framework ................................................................................................... 20 5.2.2. European infringement procedures ...................................................................... 20 5.3. Corporate Influence and Interrelations: The Role of Impregilo .................................... 21 5.4. Corruption and Ecomafia Infiltration of Urban and Industrial Waste Management ...... 21 5.4.1. Ecomafia .............................................................................................................. 22 5.4.2. Illegal waste flows ................................................................................................ 22 5.5. Waste production and treatment .............................................................................. 22 5.6. Causality, consequences and responses .................................................................... 23 5.7. Campania as a case of Environmental Injustice ......................................................... 24 5.7.1. Addressing environmental crime and injustice ..................................................... 25 6. Conclusion ........................................................................................................................ 26 2 Figure 1 : The region of Campania in Italy (Source: http://www2.minambiente.it) 1. Introduction The region of Campania in south-west Italy ( Figure 1 ) is divided into 5 provinces: Naples, Avellino, Benevento, Caserta, and Salerno. About 25% of all of protected areas in Italy are found within this region, the capital city of which is also Naples. There are currently 4 State Natural Reserves, 8 Regional National Parks, 4 Regional Natural Reserves, 106 Sites of Community Interest and 28 Special Protection Zones. Campania is notable as the most densely populated region of Italy, and also one of the nation’s poorest regions. Campania´s waste crisis was first revealed to the world through the images in the news of the city of Naples invaded by waste. This emergency was publicized as a waste disposal problem while the real problem remained hidden to the public. Indeed, if international media coverage is to serve as an indicator, the waste conflict in Campania was fully resolved as of July 18, 2008, as a direct result of waste management measures implemented under Berlusconi (The Economist, Feb 26th 2009). However, closer examination of the waste crisis reveals a much more complex picture. For more than two decades the illegal and/or inappropriate treatment and disposal of urban and industrial waste has contaminated of the region’s soil, superficial and underground waters, and atmosphere, threatening every single living thing and being. There are various forces responsible for Campania´s waste crisis: damaging cultural behaviours, illegal activities of the Camorra (the name of a dominant Naples mafia clan), and criminal behaviour on the part of politicians and public administrators, company managers and freemasons. Campania´s waste management cycle has been infiltrated by an Ecomafia (a network of criminal organizations that commit crimes causing environmental damage) that have developed an alternative illegal and polluting waste management market for “treating” both local and other region´s urban and industrial waste. This case study presents Campania´s waste crisis, showing both the legal and illegal aspects of the story. We show what has happened in the past and what still continues, indicate where responsibility lies and outline the social, environmental and economic externalities produced by the current waste 3 management in Campania. Finally, through the lenses of ecological economics, this paper will analyse the main issues underlying the case with a view to better understanding this complex conflict situation. 2. A Brief History of the Campania Waste Crisis The “emergency” we are currently witnessing, presented by the media as a urban waste management issue, is much more complex than it seems. The contamination affecting the region is the result of corrupt waste management practices enabled by the use of subcontracts to private consortiums, lack of power to enforce the law and by the persistence of an illegal waste management market that started decades ago with the treatment of harmful toxic waste produced by northern Italian industries. It all began in 1989, when Italian politicians of the Liberal party, members of the Freemasonry, and heads of the Casalesi clan met in Villaricca, in the province of Caserta. The purpose of the meeting was to define the different roles and compensations for waste management. The Freemasonry were in contact with northern Italian industrialists interested in getting rid of hazardous waste at below-market rates, and the Camorrist clan offered to provide these services through its own transport company, authorised by the Regional Councillor of Ecology from the Liberal party, Raffaele Perrone Capano. Initially, waste – both urban and hazardous – was simply transported to and abandoned in illegal landfills. Then, as the market grew, the system became more complex and extensive, resembling the current system in which waste is sent to Campania from where it transits
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